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Disgust is an essential part of the behavioral immune system, protecting the individual from infection. According to the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis (CPH), disgust sensitivity increases in times of immunosuppression, potentially including ...
Daniela Dlouhá +4 more
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De re attitude reports about disjunctive attitudes
This paper discusses the semantics of so-called de re propositional attitudes. According to the standard Kaplanian analysis, the semantics of such dicta contains existential quantification over functions that map the attitude holder and the object of ...
Ekaterina V. Vostrikova, Petr S. Kusliy
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Philosophy of History and History of Philosophy of Science [PDF]
Philosophy of history and history of philosophy of science make for an interesting case of “mutual containment”: the former is an object of inquiry for the latter, and the latter is subject to the demands of the former. This article discusses a seminal turn in past philosophy of history with an eye to the practice of historians of philosophy of science.
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The emergence of altruistic behavior constitutes one of the most widely studied problems in evolutionary biology and behavioral science. Multiple explanations have been proposed, most importantly including kin selection, reciprocity, and costly signaling
Julie Novakova +6 more
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Marian Smoluchowski (1872–1917) was an outstanding Polish physicist, known e.g. as a pioneer of statistical physics. His short paper about history of physics in Poland represents the initial study in this field.
Paweł Polak
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Science took on several distinct uses and meanings under Francoism. It was exhibited as a token of intellectual prowess, deployed as a mighty diplomatic tool, applied as a resource for industry, and invoked in support of National Catholicism. However, in
Clara Florensa, Xavier Roqué
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Overdiagnosis: The silent pandemic of the West?
An intense and widespread phenomenon of modern western societies is our recourse to doctors for preventive reasons in order to maintain good health.
Fanourios Perros, Achilleas Koumpos
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History and Philosophy of Science [PDF]
Critical Problems in the History of Science Proceedings of the Institute for the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin, September 1–11, 1957. Edited by Marshall Clagett. Pp. xiv + 555. (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1959.) 5 dollars.
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Jordan's Derivation of Blackbody Fluctuations [PDF]
The celebrated Dreimännerarbeit by Born, Heisenberg and Jordan contains a matrix-mechanical derivation by Jordan of Planck’s formula for blackbody fluctuations.
Bacciagaluppi, G. +4 more
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The Relevance of History to Philosophy of Science
I argue for the possibility of historicized philosophy of science, and then respond to three criticisms of view: 1) history of science provides too few case examples to be useful to philosophy, 2) philosophy based on history is prone to reflexive ...
Robert HUDSON
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